True?
I'm not sure, but I'd love to hear your thoughts. This is what I was thinking:
It used to be attractive to be large because it meant that you had enough $$ to eat. Now it is attractive to be thin since the least expensive food (both in terms of money and time expenditure) is sugary/greasy/calorie-laden crap. It's easy to be large now. It is difficult to be thin.
Blue eyes are stereotypically thought as an attractive eye color (although I don't know how true that is anymore) but the blue-eyed gene is recessive, i.e. difficult.
Are there other examples?
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red hair and freckles are relatively obscure, but i wouldn't necessarily say are socially defined as beautiful. very interesting thought though... i've been thinking a lot lately about what society deems beautiful. the idea of hair has been on my mind lately. give me a call, i'd love to muse with you about these things!
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